{"id":662,"date":"2010-02-23T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:12:32","slug":"maryland-budget-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/02\/maryland-budget-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Budget Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a longstanding interest in games with practical real-world applications.  For example, this budget balancer game, where you try to put the State of Maryland&#8217;s financial house in order:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/maryland-budget-game.jpg\" alt=\"Maryland Budget Game\" title=\"Maryland Budget Game\" width=\"180\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-663\" \/>Travel to different locations on the main map.  Each location represents a policy area (like higher education, revenues, or general government) where you can choose different budget options. Click on an option to select it. Click on it again if you change your mind.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; You need to pay attention to this year\u2019s budget balance. Making the \u201ccurrent year balance\u201d a positive number is what you are required to do under the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Each choice you make will not only affect the budget totals, it will also affect your popularity with ten different interest groups. If you make too many of these groups too unhappy, it might affect your and your party\u2019s political future badly.<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/MDBudgetGame\/\">Maryland Budget Map Game<\/a> @ University of Baltimore\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/ap\/game-allows-players-to-take-charge-of-md-budget-81975777.html\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/features\/budget_hero\/\">Budget Hero<\/a> from American Public Radio, where you try to balance the Federal budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a longstanding interest in games with practical real-world applications. For example, this budget balancer game, where you try to put the State of Maryland&#8217;s financial house in order: Travel to different locations on the main map. Each location represents a policy area (like higher education, revenues, or general government) where you can choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-real-world-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}